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Getting Started
Recovering the Internal Storage Drive
drive fails, you can restore your system to a new internal
storage drive from your recovery media. It is strongly
recommended that you create recovery media before using
your system for the first time. See “Creating recovery media”
on page 47 and “Restoring from recovery media” on
page 50.
❖ During the recovery process your computer must be
connected to an external power source via the AC
adaptor.
❖ When you restore your system, only the operating
system files and drivers originally shipped with the
computer are restored. Any files that you created are
not restored during this process. Be sure to
separately save the files you have created to external
media using Windows
®
or another backup program.
For more information, see “Backing up your work” on
page 72.
Creating recovery media
It is strongly recommended that you create recovery media.
If the recovery files on your internal storage drive become
corrupted or are deleted, you can restore your system from
your recovery media. Also, if your original internal storage
drive fails, you can restore your system to a new internal
storage drive from your recovery media.
During the recovery process your computer must be
connected to an external power source via the AC
adaptor.
When you create recovery media, only the operating
system files and drivers originally shipped with the
computer are backed up to the external media and can
be restored from this media. Any files that you created
are not backed up on the recovery media. You will need
to separately back up the files you created; for more
information, see “Backing up your work” on page 72.
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